Presidents Van Rompuy and Barroso today in a session with the European parliamentarians tried to portray the results of the last EU Summit as successful steps forward in addressing the structural crisis of the Union. Mojca Kleva does not share their opinions, seeing the non-responsiveness of financial markets to the decisions delivered at the EU Summit. Additionally, in October the Union still recorded historically highest levels of unemployment in the euro area. Thus, not much reason to call the last Summit a success, believes Ms Kleva.

Kleva is aware that "today is already a common knowledge that all Member States are under the pressure from financial markets and that all of them need to amend their fiscal policies." However, she loudly notes, "what is also clear is that the European Union is not only inter-governmental body. The EU is also not a union of sanctions and fear, but rather that of solidarity and integration. Fiscal consolidation alone cannot soothe the financial markets, we need active all-European policies on growth, investment, jobs and eurobonds."

She agrees with president Barroso, who pointed out that the conclusions of the EU summit last Friday are only part of the solution. Kleva is pointing out that "growth and solidarity ideas have to move from being repeatedly cited in phrases of the European leaders towards being translated into actual proposals for implementations and concrete solutions."

"Finally, isn't after yet another in the series of failed intergovernmental meetings, finally clear that in addressing the European crisis, not only German and French, but also Europen institutions have to come to the forefront?" wonders Ms. Kleva.